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Beat the rush：plan to get up early enough to avoid their fellow traveler on a road trip, or going somewhere before crowds of people get ther...

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More often than not：most of the time, or usually （往往，大多数时候，通常情况下） 例句：The starting point for any deal, he believes, is to identify exactly wh...

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Give rise to sth：to make something happen or begin, especially something unpleasant or unexpected, or to cause something. （引发、导致） 例句：The res...

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Go by the board：to get ruined or lost. (This is originally a nautical expression meaning “to fall or be washed overboard.”–...

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Anything less than：not reaching a certain level or a fixed amount （小于…的任何数、低于…的任何标准或亚于…的任何事情） 例句：This is a criticism of th...

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Pull out all the stops：To deploy all the resources or force at one’s disposal （竭尽全力、全力以赴） 例句：An over-worked marketing department had p...

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Proof of concept：a realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility, or a demonstration in principle, whose purpose is...

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Get the company into the black：this sentence is indentical to turn the company into profitablie. 例句：Just twelve month after our purchase, we...

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meet sth/sb square on：正面…事情或人 英文释义：Dare to face or confront a difficult situation or predicament, accept the fact that it exists and t...

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get swept up：在…带动下/受…影响(而随波逐流) 英文释义：When you say you were “swept up” by something, it means that you let yourself go...

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